Vocabulary
Christmas songs
The Blueprint
Christmas Movies
Syntax & Sentence Comprehension
100

All the words in a language used to understand and communicate thought.

What is Vocabulary?

100

"A one-horse open sleigh"

What is Jingle Bells?

100

The "evidence-based framework for delivering instruction that facilitates the student's ability to extract and construct meaning from the text".

What is the Reading Comprehension Blueprint?

100

Animated film about a train that carries kids to the North Pole

What is The Polar Express?

100

This lies at the heart of communicating thought and meaning whether you are the writer or the reader.

What is a sentence?

200

Breadth, Depth and        ?       are the levels of understanding related to vocabulary development.

What is fluency?

200

"And Heaven and Nature Sing"

What is Joy to the World?

200

True or False:  Knowledge of language comprehension processes and skills is essential to designing and delivering reading comprehension instruction.

What is True?

200

The name of the angel who helped George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life

Who is Clarence?

200

How words combine into phrases, clauses, and sentences; sentence structure

What is syntax?

300

An interactive routine that includes teacher modeling, student engagement through responses and allows for feedback to develop deep understanding of words.

What is the Simple Instructional Routine for vocabulary development?

300

No Crocociles or rhinoceroses, I only want...

What are hippopotamuses?

300

True or False:  Teachers should select vocabulary words to teach, prior to considering the purpose of reading and the critical concepts that students will acquire.

What is FALSE?

300

In a Christmas Story, the present Ralphie wants more than anything.

What is a Red Rider BB Gun?

300

True or False:  The intentional and incidental sentence comprehension approaches that teach grammar in the context of student reading and writing experiences are not sufficient for students with language learning challenges.

What is False?

400

True or False:  The Simple Routine is sufficient to develop depth of knowledge.

What is False?

400

You can say there is no such thing as Santa, but as for me and Grandpa, we believe

What is Grandma got run over by a reindeer?

400

Dear Benjamin Banneker, White Fang, Where the Wild Things Are and Stalin: A Brutal Legacy Uncovered

Are all examples of texts that utilize precise vocabulary and complex      ?             ?      ?

What is Sentence Structure?

400

Three words used to describe the Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

What is stink, stank, stunk?

400

Surface code, Textbase, Situation/Mental Model are all levels of this.

What is Levels of Language Processing?

500

*build on language skills in native language

*explicit instruction in morphemes and cognates

*use of bilingual glossaries

*teach multiple meaning words

*extended discussions with repetition and rehearsal

What are features of effective vocabulary interventions for ELL students?

500

It is the night of our dear Savior's birth.

What is "Oh Holy Night?"

500

The blueprint for comprehension instruction is based on this strand of Scarborough's Reading Rope.

What is the "language comprehension strand"?

500
In the movie Elf, Buddy lists four main food groups for elves.

What are candy, candy corn, candy canes and syrup?

500

Direct Instruction

Questioning

Sentence Deconstruction

Anagrams and Sentence Expansion

are all examples of...

What are examples of strategies used to teach syntax?

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